Personality & intelligence

108psych test 3

Personality

Set of behavioural, emotional and cognitive tendencies that people display over time and across situations that distinguish individual from each other

Trait theory

Enduring, stable qualities - personality traits which are relatively consistent and exhibited across a range of situations. Traits exist in a contiuum

Gordon Allport (1897 - 1967)

Focused on words that describe people, developed the term “trait” and prosed central traits can affect our behavior

Raymond Cattell (1905 - 1998)

"All aspects of human personality which are or have been of importance, interest, or utility have already been recorded in the substance of LANGUAGE" - Cattell (1943)

Hans Eysenck (1916 - 1997)

Identified three personality dimensions: Extraversion, Neuroticism and Psychoticism

McCrae and Costa

Known as (OCEAN)
Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

Openness to experience

Engagement in ideas-related endeavors (Curiosity, imaginativeness, etc.)

Conscientiousness

Engagement in task-related endeavors (Diligence, organisation, etc.)